{"id":10903,"date":"2013-06-17T12:16:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T16:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=10903"},"modified":"2013-06-17T12:16:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T16:16:49","slug":"free-as-in-beer-photo-editing-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=10903","title":{"rendered":"FREE (AS IN BEER) PHOTO EDITING SOFTWARE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fotor.com\">Fotor<\/a> requested a paid review of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fotor.com\/features\/photo-effects.html\">Photo Effects<\/a> photo editing software.  They didn&#8217;t request any kind of control of what I said or even the right to review the, er, review prior to publishing.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been playing with it on and off for a couple of weeks now.  It&#8217;s pretty powerful compared to other free software available (i.e., Picasa).  It&#8217;s all basically push button options.  A nice feature is that there&#8217;s a thumbnail version of what your photo would look like with each of the various digital filters applied.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Capture.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Capture.png\" alt=\"Capture\" width=\"255\" height=\"529\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Capture.png 255w, https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Capture-144x300.png 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of the filters are pretty slick.  Here&#8217;s a before and after using Comics B&#038;W.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P7260022.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P7260022.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10905\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P7260022.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P7260022-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P7260022-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Hogwarts-BW.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Hogwarts-BW.jpg\" alt=\"Hogwarts B&amp;W\" width=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Hogwarts-BW.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Hogwarts-BW-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Hogwarts-BW-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A minor quirk, clicking Save As doesn&#8217;t bring up the normal pop up unless you first change the file name.  <\/p>\n<p>Although I haven&#8217;t tried any of them yet, there are downloadable versions for most common platforms (Sorry, COD, no Linux).<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for some nice free editing software, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fotor.com\/features\/photo-effects.html\">Photo Effects<\/a> is worth a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fotor requested a paid review of their Photo Effects photo editing software. They didn&#8217;t request any kind of control of what I said or even the right to review the, er, review prior to publishing. I&#8217;ve been playing with it on and off for a couple of weeks now. It&#8217;s pretty powerful compared to other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10903"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10910,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10903\/revisions\/10910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}